Transcript Notes for January 13

ISP 1600 for Winter 2005
Web.Edu: How Internet Courses Work
First meeting
January 13, 2005
Class names
• Initial signin sheet
• Review of names
• Pictures (not a requirement but you may not
like the alternative, will be repeated for next
two weeks)
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Class next week
• On January 20, we will meet in the
Undergraduate Library, Computer Lab C,
Room 3150
• Go over Moodle (a Course management
System similar to Blackboard)
• May be other such meetings (unchat?)
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Syllabus
• Overview
• My contact information
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Proving that I don’t mind being contacted
• Textbook. Available in bookstore. Can try to
get it elsewhere. Danger if you buy it
online, or special-order it – it can take
awhile before you get it.
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Syllabus (continued)
• Course web site
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This is a face-to-face class with a few meetings
online. You will get the experience here.
How will course grades be calculated?
Assignment schedule
Making up a missed class (absence)
Grade appeals
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Syllabus (continued)
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Educational accessibility
Early assessment grades
Make-up examination
Late assignments
Dropping classes
Course withdrawal
Online citizenship
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Syllabus (continued)
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Course Management Systems and Moodle
Registrations and tests
Assignment: online work schedule
Online postings
Online course progress reports
Essay assignment
Final Exam
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Syllabus (continued)
• Plagiarism
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Memo to Department
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Overview
1. What is in an online course?
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b.
Almost always
Sometimes
2. What is different about online courses?
“Autonomy and Responsibility”
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b.
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The online discussion is the star
If you start to feel you are out there all alone,
and you run into any trouble, then you will
probably do badly or drop out
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Overview (continued)
3. Technical issues for online students
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b.
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This is what concerns most students (is my
computer good enough, are my Internet skills
good enough ?) but…
There are a lot of things that might go wrong.
Each one is rare.
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What can be in an online course?
• Fairly common
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Textbook. Most of your reading is not online
Web site for course
Required class meeting(s), especially WSU
• Hybrid courses
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Online discussion forum
• Synchronous (chat - rare)Vs asynchronous
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Online way to turn work in & get it back
• Can make you nervous, but actually more secure
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What can be in an online course?
• Maybe yes, maybe no
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Online web tests, reports, forms
In-person tests
Optional course meetings
Student web pages or blogs
Online reading
Online work groups
Online audio and video (multimedia)
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What can be in an online course?
• Maybe yes, maybe no (continued)
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Special software (rare in DIS)
• Spreadsheet, database
• Lotus Notes for Business
• Graphics
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Guests
Assigned outside links
PDA use (WSU Medical School)
Online evaluation (SET at WSU)
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About the Internet
• URL – Universal Resource Locater
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“web address” for a web page
• Home page – designed as beginning web
page for a site
• Four ways to get to a web page
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Type in the URL
Click on a text or graphical link
History list (only on that computer)
Make a favorite (IE) or bookmark (Netscape,
Mozilla, Firefox) (only on that computer)
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About the Internet
• It’s a jungle out there – more later
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Don’t use easy passwords
Keep antivirus software up to date
Scams, phishing, hackers
Internet security suite – includes firewall, data
safekeeping
Don’t click on free offers that are to good to be
true
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About the Internet
• It’s a jungle out there – more later
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Don’t open email attachments from someone
you don’t know
In a lab, log out whenever you can
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Online life at WSU
• Activate your WSU email
(“[email protected]”)
• If you do not use it, forward it to an account
you do use
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For next week
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Web Hub (???)
Get textbook, read Chapter 1
Remember where we meet next week
Be ready for photo
Read the web page “taking an online
course”
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